NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

Price

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$ 559.30

$ 339.79

$ 219.51 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

8113 points

21% slightly better overall score

6694 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

197 FPS

36 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

161 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

96 FPS

20 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

77 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

140 FPS

27 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

113 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

77 FPS

16 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

61 FPS

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Gaming Benchmarks

ELDEN RING FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

60 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher ELDEN RING FPS

59 FPS

Far Cry 6 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

108 FPS

24 FPS slightly higher Far Cry 6 FPS

84 FPS

Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

127 FPS

46 FPS significantly higher Forza Horizon 5 FPS

81 FPS

Red Dead Redemption 2 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

76 FPS

Identical

76 FPS

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

13651 points

491% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2309 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3380.77 points

8% slightly higher Blender score

3124.65 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

128209 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

101567 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

121057 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

99687 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1500 MHz

1925 MHz

28% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1725 MHz

2075 MHz

20% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

448 GB/s

55% significantly higher memory bandwidth

288 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

220 W

200 W

10% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

165.6 Gigapixels/s

24% slightly higher pixel rate

132.8 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

317.4 Gigatexels/s

381.8 Gigatexels/s

20% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

20.31 TFLOPS

24.44 TFLOPS

20% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

5888

Identical

5888

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

184

Identical

184

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

53rd of 586

73rd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

2023 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3070 vs GeForce RTX 4060 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3070 graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 4060 in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 4060 has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce RTX 4060 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 4060 has a slightly lower TDP at 200 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3070 at 220 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 3070 is faster than the GeForce RTX 4060.